HMB1 Post Evaluation

Ms. Yonekurayukiko (a former representative of JVC Cambodia)will conduct a post evaluation of project, entitled "Happy Mountain Bird / Ensuring Access to Primary Education for Children of the Poorest Families) from 3-17 September 2009 at Takeo and Prey Veng provinces. The staff members of internal quality control of CEDAC's Field Program will participate in that important event.

The evaluation team will discover the improvement of livelihood of the target poorest families after the withdraw of the project implementation for 2 years as well as to follow up the exact progress of primary education of the target poorest children. Additionally, the practical experiences of implementing this project will be compiled for a widely dissemination both national and international levels.

It is to note that on 02 September 2009, Ms. Yone has arrived to Cambodia for doing this task. She traveled with CEDAC staff to go to Tramkak district, Takeo province on 3 Sep. Addtionally, the team planed to meet altogehter on September 07, 2009 to discuss in detail about the preparation and development of questionnaires.

Meeting with other NGO partners

On Tuesday, 18 June 2009, I (Yim Sok Sophors, a staff member of CEDAC) participated in the meeting with representatives of the other NGOs like HKI and GAA. The meeting was taken place at Welthungerhilfe/GAA office, Phnom Penh. The following are the names of participants:

1. Mr. Yim Soksophors, CEDAC
2. Mr. Aminuzzaman Talukder, HKI
3. Mr. Hou Kroeun, HKI
4. Mr. Walter Berier, Welthungerhilfe/GAA
5. Mrs. Christina Warning, Welthungerhilfe/GAA
6. Mrs. Angela Kahl, Welthungerhilfe/GAA

The meeting was organized among the NGO partners that have received grant support from the European Commission (EC) for the purpose of discussing about the how to conduct baseline survey, end line survey and global indicator with the technical support from the international consultant. At the end of the meeting, each NGO partner has agreed to conduct jointly baseline survey, end line survey and global indicators. A budget package is developed with the contribution of all NGO partners. Additionally, GAA act as the coordinating NGO that facilitate the coordinating meeting among all NGO partners from this month to end of this year.

Survey and Training Service for HEKS and CCK

Mr. Eung Seng and Mr. Sok Thea have recently conducted the survey and training services for HEKS. The title of the survey is "the family of Child Sponsorship Program (CSP)of HEKS-Cambodia in Takeo and Kampong Chhnang provinces". The purpose of this survey is to find out what are the real needs and proper intervention support of the five CSP’s families to improve their living condition in the future. The results from the survey will be the input for the program implementation to support the CSP's families in the year 2010. The study was conducted with all five CSP's families based on questionnaires which were used to interview students, household heads, school principals, neighbors and village chiefs. The study was conducted from 18 to 22 July 2009.

On the other hand Mr. Eung Seng and Mr. Sok Thea have also provided the training service CCK. The aim of the training is to provide general theory and steps of the baseline study and share real experiences related to the baseline study which has been conducted by CEDAC. The training lasts two days from 16 to 17 July 2009 at CCK's office in Koh Andeth district of Takeo province. The training has attended by ten participants from CCK's staff and involved people; in which 50% of them are women.

Mr. Kin Mengse (second from the right), program officer of CEDAC, accompanied with other project staff visited SRI rice field in target village of a joined project between GAA and CEDAC.

Rally against WTO in Hong Kong, 2005

1 CEDAC staff and other 3 representatives of FNN participated in the international conference on WTO.

Sorn Vansoy, representative of Farmer and Natural Net (FNN) in Cambodia, took photograph with African children during the world forum in Mali, 2007.

Come on, having lunch with me. It is delicious as it is the cooked rice from SRI practices.

The indigenous farmers learned how to transplant rice seedlings in rows / square pattern.

How the indigenous people carry the rice seedlings now? Just look the photo!